Poetry list
silence
the silence that is
full and the silence
that is empty the
first is evident in
music and grows in
prayer to an over
whelming fulness
and rapture the
mystic union beyond
words and sound
thought and sense
the empty silence
is full of memories
pain loss regrets
insufficiency pangs
and images signals
and daggers the
impossible agony
of abandonment
separation the
contrasting scene
so dramatic the
oasis and the
desert our hearts
seek one and
dread the other
healing and
hell and somehow
they leak into
one another and
turn as a curdling
creation we fill
our days with
busy self lest
the truth of
silence leaks
in hesitate
and we are
confronted with
a different world
where we can
never be god can
we choose no we
can only live to
enjoy and endure
as the truth of
reality allows it
is a new and
different freedom
from the one of
power and control
it is an encounter
that leads us ever
deeper into the
mystery that
embraces us so
no clock can tick
no pulse can beat
no life can live
alone
alone in the myriad
contradiction of
the marriage of
eternity
© Neil Thompson 2023